I am a licensed clinical psychologist in California (PSY 36181). I received my PhD in Clinical Psychology and a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology, both with an emphasis in Depth Psychology. With over a decade of clinical experience, I have provided individual, couples, group, and family psychotherapy across private practice, community mental health, residential (complex trauma, substance abuse, traumatic brain injury, dual diagnosis, eating disorders), in/outpatient programs, and charter school settings. Working with children, adolescents, and adults with diverse subjectivities, inner resources, and psychological distress has greatly informed my developmental approach in my current practice — providing psychotherapy for adults of all ages.

My clinical training has included working with specific populations such as retired NFL players, adults experiencing or on the precipice of significant life transitions (professional, creative, grief-related, relationships, family, recovery) and individuals from marginalized communities. In addition to providing psychotherapy, I have served as a program director and clinician at Community West delivering integrated psychodynamic and behavioral services for teens and young adults with mood, anxiety, OCD, neurodivergent and trauma-related disorders with extensive diagnostic and family experience.

I use a relationally focused, psychodynamic psychoanalytic informed approach to listen to how deep-rooted beliefs, current dilemmas in daily life, socio-cultural factors, and emotional responses are communicating through the expression of psychological symptoms. In my listening practice, my attention is multi-directional. My approach considers how being, seeing, coping, and assuming are formed and impacted within, and beyond, one's immediate family system. I attend to the imprints of inherited implicit and explicit trauma, following the feelings that arise around experiences of control, and its absence. My style is collaborative, patient and serves to confront inner conflicts, compromises, defenses, and newfound gifts which often takes time.

In this shared discovery, beginning to notice internal reactions without fusing with them can be challenging, and with the possibility to feel this is within reach. We will look more carefully at what is already known or named, while also exploring what has remained outside of awareness or acceptance. Often relational ruptures that have betrayed the basic need for epistemic trust are able to be felt and experienced in a new way under the unique conditions that shape the therapeutic space.

Following the language of the unconscious is not only limited to the inner life of dreams, but is a continual communication speaking through bodily symptoms, words and gestures. This includes what lives within the gaps of what is not being said, as an open field to host a spectrum of emotions constellated within the therapeutic dyad. Such disclosures allow for making contact with one’s personal histories in the present tense. When this process starts to ignite, the things that are carried from family histories and systemic ruptures can start to have a place to land, and to understand.

I hold a certificate in Jungian Studies in Clinical Practice from the C.G. Jung Institute in Los Angeles and have post-graduate education in psychoanalytic theory at the Wright Institute Los Angeles. I am a member of the American Psychological Association (APA) and it’s Division 39 - Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology.